Marek hired as senior editor for Payments Dive

Lynne Marek

Longtime business journalist Lynne Marek has been hired as senior editor for Payments Dive, an Industry Dive newsletter.

She was a senior reporter at Crain’s Chicago Business before leaving late last year. Marek had been with Crain’s Chicago since March 2010.

Before Crain’s Chicago, Marek was the Chicago bureau chief for the National Law Journal. She also worked at Bloomberg News for 11 years, covering airlines, railroads and the Federal Reserve.

She also spent three years at the Chicago Tribune.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.